Gas-heater



G. F. REZNOR.

GAS HEATER.

APPLICATlON FILED FEB. 9, 1916.

1 1 95 ,730 Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

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GEORGE F. REZNOLRQOF MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-HEATER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Application filed February 9, 1916. Serial No. 77,168.

- of Mercer, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Gas-Heater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to gas heaters of the reflector type.

An object of the invention is to provide in a gas heater a fenderand correlated body elements, whereby the fender will be firmly sustained, when adjusted in the normal position, at the front of the heater, the construction permitting the fender to be swung upwardly and afford convenient access to the reflector for cleaning, without wholly removing the fender, the fender, however, being readily movable when required for repair or otherwise. v

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure' 1 is a front elevation of a gas heater embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectionon the line 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail in horizontal section on the line 83, Fig. 2; Fig. l is a detail sectional view on the line l4, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a detail vertical secstion on the line 55, Fig. 4:; Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective View of a part of the fender; Fig. 7 is an end elevation; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the end frame and legs at that end of the heater shown in Fig. 7 Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail section on the line 9--9, Fig. 7.

The body of my improved heater in the illustrated example is made up of sheet metal and end frames. The sheet metal includes a back sheet 10 and end sheets 11. Said back sheet may have a flue connection 10, for use if desired. Below the open front 12, a transverse front strip of sheet material 13 is. provided, preferably of U- which the reflector .14 is secured at its forward end. A sheet 15 may be disposed as an inner wall adjacent to the back of the heater and extending toward the top thereof to form an air space at the back ofthe heater. Said wall 15 is shown with the flanges 16 secured by bolts 17 to the sides of the heater.

The top 18 of the heater is rounded trans versely and extends from the upper edge of the back sheet of the'heater. At the lower portion of the top 18, the sheet, constituting said top, is bulged outwardly as at 19, whereby to provide an interior chamber or recess 20,.1t-I1giI1g longitudinally across the front of the heater above the front opening 12. The said sheet, in which the bulging member 19 is formed, is continued at the bottom-below the chamber 20 as at 19 and preferably, is formed with an inturned flange 19 at its lower edge. In the said chamber .20, a burner pipe 21 is disposed longitudinally of the heater and has rearwardly disposed burner nipples or jets 22. The burner pipe21 may have any suitable gas connection, there being shown for the purpose, a hollow member 23 connected with one end thereof, and in communication with a valve fitting 24, adapted to receive a gas pipe or hose, the opposite end of the burner pipe being suitably capped as at 25.

In the construction shown I employ, above the burner pipe 21-, a flame plate 26, and below the said burner pipe, adjacent to the upper end of the reflector 14:, I provide a transverse screen 26 but these elements do not constitute part of the present invention. The screen 26 is sustained by securing its front edge to the inturned flange 19 and its rear edge to the inner back wall 15.

The end frames,.as best seen in Figs. 7 and 8, comprise upper flanged, arched plates and separate vertical corner irons, angular in cross section, secured at their upper ends to the said plates and formed into legs. The numeral 27 designates one end plate and the numeral 28,.the opposite end plate, there being openings, 27, 28% in the said plates for the outlet of heated air. The end sheets 11 terminate adjacent to the lower edges of the end plates, 27, 28, leaving unimpeded outlet for the heated air through the openings, 27 28.

Each end plate is formed with an inwardly extending flange 29 and the said plates arch in conformity with the transshape in cross section, to the upper flange of verse rounding top 18, the material of said top being overlapped by the said flanges. Each end plate and its flange 29 pro ect outwardly, the flanges being rounded as at 30, to receive the ends of the bulged portlon 19 of the sheet material 18. The lower ends of the arched plates 27, 28, overlap the vertical angle iron corner members 32, sald lower ends being offset as at 31, 31*, to rec ive respectively, at the inside thereof, th

upper ends of said corner irons, the plates and corner irons being fastened together by stove bolts 33. Also, the respective sheet members are secured to said plates, 27, 28, and the corner irons 32 by a suitable number of stove bolts. The lower ends of the corner irons 32 are continued below the bottom of the body of the heater as at 34, and are provided with feet 35.

By forming the end frames as described, the arched plates thereof and the character of the corner irons permit of assembling the heater parts with facility, and result in a very strong construction. Also, great advantage results aesthetically, as well as with respect to utility and simplicity of structure. In connection with one end plate as 27, I provide a shelf, designated generally by the numeral 36, and having at the inside thereof, a horizontal ledge 37, integral therewith be low the upper edge of said face plate. The face plate 36 forms part of the main end plate 27 and is hinged to the relatively fixed part of said plate by a hinge bolt 38, or the like. The ledge 37 in the inner position of the shelf, is amply accommodated in the heater between the flame plate 26 and the rounding top 18, and said shelf may be read ily swung outward to the position shown in Fig. 1, to accommodate a milk bottle, or the like, for maintaining the same heated. In the closed position, the shelf is quite inconspicuous, owing to its constituting a part of the main end plate of the heater. At the free edge of the face plate 36, a lug 39 projects in the plane of the plate and is adapted to engage and rest upon an upwardly projecting catch 40 on the fixed portion of the plate 27, to hold the shelf in the closed position. If found advisable a longitudinal tierod 41 extends beneath the arched top 18, and is secured to the flange 29 of the end plate 28, and to a depending lug 42 on the flange 29, of the end plate 27, the face plate 36 of the shelf having an opening 43 to conform to the said lug 42.

The foregoing features do not form part of the invention herein claimed, except as the corner irons are correlated to the fender next described.

The corner irons 32 serve to adjustably and detachably support a fender 44, which may consist of longitudinally curved bars, 45, 46,- joined by spaced vertical members as shown. The ends 47 of the vertical members preferably curve inwardly. The ends 48 of the upper longitudinal bar 46 curve inwardly and terminate in offset members 49, which are removably received in sockets 50, formed by bulging out the front flanges of the angular corner irons 32. (See Figs. 4, 5 and 6). At the inside of the sockets 50, plates 51 are applied to the front flanges of Copies of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing Washington, D. 0."

the corner irons 32 and have a suflicient resiliency to permit the turning of the terminals 49 in the sockets when the fender 44 is swung upwardly to the dotted line position indicated in Fig. 2. The resiliency of the plates 51 maintains the fender both in the lowered and in the raised positions. The fender may be detached by springing the longitudinal bars 48. In the raised position of the fender, the reflector, it will be seen, may be readily cleaned. It will be observed from Fig. 1, that the curved ends 52, of the lower longitudinal bar 46 of the fender, are formed with offset terminals 53 that engage the front flanges of the corner irons 32 when the fender is lowered and thus arrest the downward swinging movement of the fender so that it is disposed vertically.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A gas heater including a body having a front opening, a fender, and sockets on the body at the sides of the opening, the sockets including rigid front members forming recesses at the inner side, and'plates at the inner sides of said recesses, the said fender having end members near the top adapted to be sprung toward each other and formed with terminals rockably supported in said sockets to permit upward swinging of the said fender, the said end members being resiliently engaged by said plates and adapted to be held thereby in either the raised or lowered position of the fender, the resilient portions permitting the springing of the same to engage or disengage the terminals and sockets, said fender having additional end members below the first end members adapted to rest against the front of the heater when the fender is in the lowered position.

2. A gas heater having a front opening and formed with sockets disposed toward each other at the opposite sides of the opening, and fender, said fender having resilient end portions adapted to be sprung toward each other, the said end portions having terminals accommodated in said sockets and rockably'supported therein to permit of the fender beingswung upwardly, the said resilient portions of the fender permitting the springing of the same to enter the terminals in said sockets or to withdraw said terminals.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v GEORGE F. REZNOR.

Witnesses:

T. W, MGCLAIN,

THos. McCLArN, Jr.

the Commissioner of Patents, 

